Offering a collection of information on memorial projects in Turkey since 2013, “Memorialize Turkey” website has been updated with new sites of memory and memorialization efforts.

An avalanche has struck a minibus and a construction equipment in Turkey’s eastern province of Van. While seven people have been rescued, five people have lost their lives in the incident.

CHP Hatay MP Güzelmansur previously submitted a Parliamentary question on the amount of Afrin’s olive oils released to the domestic market. Minister of Agriculture has not shared the requested data because “it is a trade secret.”

Two heavy penal courts had not released writer Mehmet Altan despite a Constitutional Court judgment.

İYİ Party Chair Akşener has said, “It was said that Turkey would give Ukraine 200 million lira in aid. The same night, Syrian army controlled by Russia targeted Turkish soldiers. The game of chess here is clear: We give military aid, become a military target.”

Two members of the BDP had been sentenced to 10 months in prison for "terrorist propaganda" over a campaign for the PKK leader.

Addressing reporters at Atatürk Airport before leaving İstanbul for Ukraine, President Erdoğan has said, “We are determined to continue our operations for the security of our country, people and our brothers and sisters in Idlib.”

The Ministry of National Defense has announced that five soldiers and one civilian personnel have lost their lives in Syria's Idlib. Earlier today, the Ministry announced the death toll as four, including one critically wounded soldier.

"Leaving Jerusalem entirely in Israel's bloody claws will be the greatest evil for all humanity," the President has remarked.

Attorneys of arrested businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala have published a summary note on the fifth hearing of Gezi trial held on January 28: “The Court heard an imaginary witness who was not registered in the population.”

Announcing its ruling on inmate Resul Kocatürk, who was not permitted to attend his father’s funeral, the Constitutional Court has concluded that his “right to respect for private and family life” has been violated.

Assoc. Prof. Ümit Sayın was a defendant who had been under a witness protection program in the 11-year-long case.

With the commutation granted by Erdoğan, 86-year-old convict of Sivas Massacre will not serve rest of his aggravated life sentence behind bars. "Can Erdoğan do the same thing for other ill inmates?”, asks Altıok, who lost her father in Madımak.

A lawsuit has been filed against lawyer Aytaç for allegedly making a speech to lawyers before the “Justice Watch” at courthouse. "He aimed to support arrested suspects of Cumhuriyet newspaper under the name of Justice Watch”, it is argued.

Testifying that “he has been an informant since he was 10”, prisoner İ.Ö. filed a complaint against an attorney for calling him an informant for the police. In his defense, the attorney indicated that this description was made by İ.Ö. himself.

In their letter to the Financial Times, European politicians and academics have said, “In its treatment of Kavala, Turkey is in clear breach of its commitments under the ECHR and has along the way alienated almost every friend it once had in Europe.”

Indicating that he is as hopeful for a peace process as he was in 2012, former HDP MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder has said, “When peace becomes a serious possibility, people now have more foresight about what needs to be done.”

We are publishing the full statement of defense delivered by arrested businessperson Osman Kavala in the fifth hearing of Gezi trial on January 28, when the court ruled for the continuation of his detention despite the ECtHR verdict.

Since the establishment of the ECtHR, Turkey has been convicted for violating freedom of expression for 356 times in total, more than any other state.

After bianet's reports on a self-proclaimed informant who testified in more than a hundred political cases, MPs from the HDP and the TİP have brought the case into the parliamentary agenda.